This collection is how it feels to try out adulthood and repeatedly find that you are both still a child and really good at life. Our hero is joyfully amused by her every raw emotion, and at the world’s absurdity. It made me uncomfortable, but only because it resonates so deeply, so I came out on the other side laughing and less alone.

I got dressed up and walked around Oakland with no purpose. I got dressed up and thought I am giving this coat a test drive. I got dressed up and walked alone and then finished a novel while sitting in a mausoleum. I got dressed up and took the train and wandered over to old haunts which were closed early for Sunday and looked into the windows and saw the reflection of my outfit. I got dressed up and went out and didn’t know where I was going and it didn’t matter.

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Broadsides from Alexandra Naughton’s I Will Always Be In Love are available for purchase for $5 and $10 and every broadside purchase gets a secret link to the eBook before it’s released. Broadsides and eBook designed by Youssef Alouiu of Paper Press Books.

What does it mean when smiles
turn into the ones with hearts for eyes.

Like context clues. Like one of the most useful things
I learned in school.

I’m having auditory hallucinations, full length conversations,
good as gospel.

What’s it like to not read into everything, like how something feels or just how you thought of it. Or just how you felt when you thought of it.

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Broadsides from Alexandra Naughton’s I Will Always Be In Love are available for purchase for $5 and $10 and every broadside purchase gets a secret link to the eBook before it’s released. Broadsides and eBook designed by Youssef Alouiu of Paper Press Books.